Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intense individuality and extreme originality Evreinov has proposed and applied a number of advanced ideas in theatrical art. Of these his most unusual invention is the monodrama, a type of play which endeavors to make the audience experience the emotions of the actor by conveying to it the inner workings of his soul...
...dancer the other for his wife. He employs characters of a symbolic nature such as "The Reasonable Self" and "The Emotional Self". These characters engage in a sort of Jekyll-Hyde conflict, terminating in a decision to love the dancer wholeheartedly and final suicide on the part of the "actor" whose emotions are being depicted to the audience. The entire action of the play is supposed to take place in the brain of a man in half a second's time. Novel scenic effects heighten the realism and emotional effect of the play...
...Actor Has High Mission...
...Paraclete," the chosen production of the Dramatic Club, is the exemplification of another of Evreinov's unusual ideas. He believes that the actor's mission is not merely to amuse and instruct the populace from the stage. He has a broader conception of the actor's duties and declares that the acting profession night well mingle with the common people and bring happiness and pleasure to them by supplying friendship to the friendless, and love to those without lovers...
...Theatregoers Club will launch its season at a meeting in Emerson Hall on Friday, October 29 at 4 o'clock. De Wolf Hooper, musical comedy star, and E. E. Clive, actor and director will be the speakers at the Theatregoers first meeting of the year...